This is not an easy subject. Is this increased environment awareness just another cheap stunt pulled by the media to make us buy their papers and watch their tv-shows? Is it a trick to make people focus on something other than the obviously incompetent leadership of our countries. Or are we really on the eve of destruction?
I don't know, but my guess is, from what I've seen with my own eyes, that the environment really is taking a lot of damage. I believe that that part is a reality.
On the other hand is the fact that we now are able to get reports of disasters happening all over the world almost the second it happens. The media can now cover every little corner of the world and does not miss reporting a single tremble or quake. In that way our world seems to be a much more hazardous place to live in now than it used to be.
This also makes it easy for fact-freaks to make us pay attention to the increased number of reports now compared to the lesser reports of the years before and so on. The scientists can then draw a graph using those figures and easily predict a very grim future for us all.
Before the technical breakthroughs of the information-age we often did not hear anything at all about earthquakes occurring in other parts of the world. At best we did get to hear about it weeks or even years after the incident.
Though it's easy to be intimidated by the shear number and frequency of catastrophes we hear of happening all over the world every day, our increased knowledge is not only a bad thing.
The good thing is that we are constantly being reminded how quick and easy we can make the earth inhabitable if we are careless.
Even if it all should turn out to be a big hoax - which I don't think it is, at least not a big one - we all would be better off as human beings if we started living our lives a bit more responsibly.
Taking care of each other AND the place we live in shouldn't really be so hard, should it?
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Hello!
Your blog entry was interesting reading, it's not easy to determine the degree of truth in all the reports. I agree with you that today’s media coverage is one of the reasons why we get more reports now then in the past.
Hi Robert,
I enjoyed reading your blog, you make some very interesting points about the impact media has on us. However, you say in your blog that because of the increase in media-coverage we know more about earthquakes that occurs around the world. I don't agree with you completely on this matter; it is true that we receive more and more information about what's going on around us, but this is not the ONLY reason why we now hear more about it. Another reason is the knowledge we now have on earthquakes for example; there are data showing that earthquakes are getting bigger than they have been before and that they occur more frequently than they have in the past.
I do agree with you though, that all of us would benefit from living our lives a bit more responsibly by making decisions that are beneficial to our planet and coming generations. It shouldn't be so hard should it?
Hello!
This is a nice change from the other text, it got me thinking Media do have a big part in how we look at the environment problem. Media can prove to be very helpful if it is used right.
I don't agree with the comment from elinersson that the earthquakes are getting bigger and that they occur more frequently. First we can't be sure how many earthquakes there was 100 years ago there is a big dark number, and when it comes to intensity the equiptment used, even 20 years ago, wasn't as sensitive or good as they are today this might be a reason to the increase. So unfortunatly the evidence in this case is a bit blurry.
Thanks for a fun reading.
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